HOW TO SLEEP WELL AND SLEEP DEEP | Buddha story on sleep | 7 tips for a good night's sleep |

foreign [Music] once upon a time   a rich man went to a Buddhist monk and said sir I  am very disturbed with my sleep even after trying   very hard I cannot sleep till late night and  even when I fall asleep I keep turning sides   all the night and Ben I wake up in the morning  I do not feel well I feel tired and Restless   please give me some solution for this problem the  Buddhist monk said before I tell you the solution   to your problem I want to tell you a little story  about The Secret of kottam Buddha's deep sleep   then the Buddhist monk began to tell  a story and The Story Goes Like This   when Buddha slept he used to stay in the same  posture all the night he never changes posture   he had a disciple whose name was Ananda  he always used to sleep near Gautam Buddha   he often used to notice that Buddha spent  the whole night in the same physical state   whenever he would awaken the middle of the  night he would see Buddha in the same posture   this would create many questions in his mind  one day Ananda could not stop his curiosity   he awakened Buddha in middle of the night and said  Lord please forgive me I know that this is not the   right time to ask a question to you because you  keep walking all the day but my curiosity has   increased so much that I cannot feel till morning  so please answer my question and calm my curiosity   then Ananda continued I have been  with you for the last 20 years   and I have been seeing that you spend  the whole night in only one posture   you do not even move the slightest  so do you really sleep or not and said Ananda I have found the  right sleeping posture for myself   now I do not need to move while sleeping I remain  awake even in the state of sleep while my body is   asleep I stay awake Ananda asked but Lord how  is this possible to keep awake while sleeping   Buddha said Ananda during the sleep when the mind  is restless then the body also become restless and   it keeps turning and changing posture again and  again but I have gone beyond all these things   now there is nothing left in me like  a mind therefore when I go to sleep my   body becomes just like a dead body and have  you ever seen a dead body changing its state   then Buddha said it is only our mind which does  all this work even in the state of deep sleep   but once the Mind becomes calm then  your body will go into deep sleep   but you will be awake from within from  within you will be able to feel everything   even after sleeping your awareness will be  ignited continuously like a small burning lamp   after finishing the story the  Buddhist monk said to the rich man   my friend an enlightened man does  not sleep like a normal person   when a normal person sleeps he becomes unconscious  and he does not even know about his surroundings   but when a man like Buddha sleeps he  is always aware when we go to sleep   then there comes a moment between waking and  sleeping something amazing happens in that moment   but Common Man fails to experience that  moment it does not know when he falls asleep   where else enlightened person stays in that moment  only that moment brings you closer to awareness   hearing this the man said sir I do not  understand the things of such a deep spirituality   please explain to me in easy words why I  do not get a deep and a good sleep [Music]   the monk said my friend there are seven  main reasons for a disturbed sleep   the first reason is doing some  other work then sleeping on your bed   many people have a habit of eating food on bed  watching videos on mobile phone while lying on bed   playing games or gossiping on their bed they do  many other such things on their bed which they   should not do the meaning of bedroom is sleeping  place but people also use it for other purpose   due to which the bedroom does not  have a definite meaning in our brain   so when we go to sleep in the bed  our mind does not fully accept that   now we have to sleep and this is a big reason  that we do not fall asleep quickly and get soundly   then the monk further said in Buddhist  Monastery a mock leaves his bed as soon   as he wakes up in the morning and then  he go back to the bed only at night   by which his brain knows that going  to bad means going into deep sleep   second reason for not getting sound and restful  sleep is not having a fixed bedtime schedule   if you want to wake up early in the morning and  get full sleep then you have to make a habit of   going to bed early in the night and at a fixed  time when we regularly sleep at a fixed time   then our mind becomes Jack to storm to that and  then at that time you will automatically start   feeling sleepy then Buddhist monk said third  reason for restless sleep is thinking about   negative things before going to sleep if you go to  sleep at night with thoughts of worry in your mind   then your mind will become Restless and this will  disturb your sleep the thought that you will have   before sleep will become the first thought when  you wake up in the morning when we are just about   to sleep then our subconscious mind is most active  and at that time the thoughts we are creating   inside us are accepted quickly by our subconscious  mind and then it tries to bring them into reality   our subconscious mind cannot choose  between good and bad thoughts   it does not know what is good and what is bad it  just starts working on the information received   therefore instead of thinking about our  problems and negative thoughts while sleeping   we should think about those good things which  we want to get in our life it can bring positive   change in your life then the monk said the fourth  reason for not getting good and sound sleep   is sleeping in the wrong way when you sleep you  should not sleep with your head towards the North   disease because when you sleep  with our head towards the North   then due to the magnetic pull of the earth a lot  of blood of our body tries to go toward the brain   and due to very thin beans found in the brain  there is an increased risk of them bursting   and if a person is very old and weak then he can  also die some research has found that animals such   as cattle and deer naturally align their bodies  with their head in a South Direction when they are   resting additionally a research shows that when  people switch to sleeping in a Southwest Direction   their blood pressure lowers and their  sleep quality improves therefore one   should always sleep with his head towards south  or east the fifth reason for a Restless leave   is wrong sleeping posture a simple mistake that  people make in their sleeping position is that   they simply fall asleep in any position they do  not care whether their spine is straight or not   while we should try that either we sleep  straight or we sleep on our left side   sleeping on your left side will keep your  digestion working and you will also have   very less dreams in this posture you will not  have any nightmare or any Nightfall young people   who suffer from Nightfall should try to sleep  on their left side to get rid of this problem   the sixth reason for not getting good sleep  is consumption of heavy food items late night   if you will consume heavy meals at  night then it will disturb your sleep   because it takes a lot of time and energy to  digest heavy food at night while we are awake and   doing any activity our digestion works properly  but then we go to sleep our digestion slows down   due to slow digestion food in your stomach will  not be digested properly and it will remain in   your stomach it will upset your stomach and  as a result you will have Disturbed sleep   therefore always try to eat three to four hours  before sleeping the seventh reason for a Restless   sleep is use of very thick and soft mattresses  if you sleep on thick and soft mattresses   then while sleeping it will bend your spine and  interfere with your deep sleep also do not use two   thick pillows because it can cause your neck to  twist more and your body will start to feel tense   and this will cause a hindrance in your deep  sleep then the monk said so these are the few   reasons for not getting good sleep at night if  you can eliminate all these Reasons from your life   then you will definitely have a  good and a deep sleep every night   the man understood the meaning of Monk's words  he bowed down to him and left happily from there   so friends if you also want to improve  your sleep quality and have a deep sleep   then you can also follow this advice from the  Buddhist monk and make your life more peaceful foreign [Music]

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Published: Sun Apr 23 2023